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I don't go to the theatre very often but watched MIDWAY today an

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by: PeoriaIllinoisan Online 18 OP 
~ 5 years ago   Nov 9, '19 3:47pm  
I don't go to the theatre very often but watched MIDWAY today and it was pretty great, not exactly Saving Private Ryan great, but pretty darn good nonetheless.
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DennisinMH 13
~ 5 years ago   Nov 9, '19 3:50pm  
Next movie we'll probably see in the theater is Frozen II. Previews make it look like more action in the movie.
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leslie110 17
~ 5 years ago   Nov 9, '19 6:18pm  
I took my dad to see Midway yesterday. I really liked it but wondered about the tiny foray into China...until I read this.
 
www.google.com/amp/s /www.wsj.com/amp/art icles/hollywood-revi sits-battle-of-
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mypeez 16
~ 5 years ago   Nov 10, '19 7:14am  
So they updated it?

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jannn1959 1
~ 5 years ago   Nov 10, '19 9:22am  
@mypeez : Thanks for the memory! My dad took me to see the movie at the theater on Knoxville (I think it was called the Byerly Theater). The movie was in sensuround a sound gimmick to make you feel the attacks!
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mypeez 16
~ 5 years ago   Nov 10, '19 1:39pm  
@jannn1959 : I heard about it having that as a sound effect, but didn't get to see it at the theater. Sort of a forerunner to Dolby. en.wikipedia.org/wik i/Sensurround
Funny, I tracked down a copy of Rollcoaster on DVD thinking it was the first movie released in Dolby Surround - turned out it was Sensurround too. That one I did get to see at the movies.
 

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leslie110 17
~ 5 years ago   Nov 12, '19 10:07pm  
@cjsummers : Yes, yes, yes!!!! Before we even stood up (granted, it takes my dad a while to stand up) I leaned over and said "excuse me...dedicated to the Japanese soldiers? **** them".
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mypeez 16
~ 5 years ago   Nov 13, '19 4:45am  
Agree, Eastwood did it correctly with "Letters from Iwo Jima" and "Flags of our Fathers". Two separate movies from each side's perspective of the battle. It would have been better to let the credits roll without any commentary - a good film could have accomplished that on its own. Sorry but Roland Emmerich's direction and the CGI strikes me too much as Michael Bay's 2001 remake of Pearl Harbor rather than Saving Private Ryan.
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